Intel today updated its vPro business desktop platform for the first time since its introduction last September with the new Weybridge platform. The revised vPro includes a new Bearlake family chipset – the Q35 Express. Intel touts enhanced security against hacking and viruses with the updated vPro.

"Today, the business desktop PC just got more secure," said Robert B. Crooke, vice president and general manager of Intel's Business Client Group. "This generation of Intel vPro processor technology arrives with new security and management capabilities along with support from every leading PC manufacturer and software solution vendor in the world."

Weybridge also features update to Intel’s Active Management Technology, or AMT. The new Intel AMT 3.0 technology allows system administrators to remote manage a desktop without being in an operating system.

Intel packs the Q35 Express with Graphics Media Accelerator, or GMA, 3100 integrated graphics. The GMA 3100 features support for DirectX 9.0c with Shader Model 2.0. The graphics core is also compatible with Microsoft’s Windows Vista Aeroglass.

Expect manufacturers such as Dell, Lenovo and others to ship Weybridge-based vPro systems.

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